Healthcare Realty Trust
Through the investors’ lenses
Each of these investors has said in public what they look at before buying. Click a name to see how this company measures up — a tick where it passes one of their tests, a cross where it does not.
Warren Buffett 0/3
| Measure | HR | Checked against | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Owner earnings | $-12.26m | positive | ✗ |
| Return on equity | -5.3% | median 11.7% | ✗ |
| Debt to equity | 0.85x | median 0.79x | ✗ |
| Operating margin | — | median 15.0% | — |
Passes 0 of 3. To be clear: Warren Buffett has never said anything about Healthcare Realty Trust. These are the company’s own figures put through the tests he described. What he looks at, and why →
Terry Smith 0/1
| Measure | HR | Checked against | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on capital employed | — | median 10.1% | — |
| Cash conversion | — | median 1.78x | — |
| Operating margin | — | median 15.0% | — |
| Debt to equity | 0.85x | median 0.79x | ✗ |
Passes 0 of 1. To be clear: Terry Smith has never said anything about Healthcare Realty Trust. These are the company’s own figures put through the tests he described. What he looks at, and why →
Charlie Munger 0/1
| Measure | HR | Checked against | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on capital employed | — | median 10.1% | — |
| Return on equity | -5.3% | median 11.7% | ✗ |
| Operating margin | — | median 15.0% | — |
Passes 0 of 1. To be clear: Charlie Munger has never said anything about Healthcare Realty Trust. These are the company’s own figures put through the tests he described. What he looks at, and why →
Chuck Akre 0/3
| Measure | HR | Checked against | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on equity | -5.3% | median 11.7% | ✗ |
| Debt to equity | 0.85x | median 0.79x | ✗ |
| Cash conversion | — | median 1.78x | — |
| Return on equity, sustained | 0 of 10 | 8 of 10 above median | ✗ |
Passes 0 of 3. To be clear: Chuck Akre has never said anything about Healthcare Realty Trust. These are the company’s own figures put through the tests he described. What he looks at, and why →
Philip Fisher 0/1
| Measure | HR | Checked against | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | — | median 15.0% | — |
| Net margin | -872.1% | median 10.2% | ✗ |
| Return on capital employed | — | median 10.1% | — |
Passes 0 of 1. To be clear: Philip Fisher has never said anything about Healthcare Realty Trust. These are the company’s own figures put through the tests he described. What he looks at, and why →
Walter Schloss 0/1
| Measure | HR | Checked against | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Current ratio | — | median 1.25x | — |
| Debt to equity | 0.85x | median 0.79x | ✗ |
Passes 0 of 1. To be clear: Walter Schloss has never said anything about Healthcare Realty Trust. These are the company’s own figures put through the tests he described. What he looks at, and why →
Benjamin Graham 0/1
| Measure | HR | Checked against | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Current ratio | — | 2.00x published | — |
| Long-term debt to working capital | — | 1.00x published | — |
| Positive earnings, ten years running | 0 yrs | 10 published | ✗ |
Passes 0 of 1. To be clear: Benjamin Graham has never said anything about Healthcare Realty Trust. These are the company’s own figures put through the tests he described. What he looks at, and why →
Peter Lynch 0/2
| Measure | HR | Checked against | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debt to equity | 0.85x | median 0.79x | ✗ |
| Net margin | -872.1% | median 10.2% | ✗ |
Passes 0 of 2. To be clear: Peter Lynch has never said anything about Healthcare Realty Trust. These are the company’s own figures put through the tests he described. What he looks at, and why →
| Basis | Payout | Why |
|---|---|---|
| GAAP earnings | negative | whyLost $0.710 per share — no earnings to pay from. |
| Operating cash flow | 84.6% | whyBefore capital spending. |
| Free cash flow | 304.8% | whyCounts property acquisitions as though they were maintenance. |
| Funds from operations | 466.4% | whyThe industry's basis — adds that depreciation back. |
Spread between highest and lowest: 381.7 percentage points. Same filings, different denominators.
Coverage rating 0 / 100 — Not covered. ? Peer standing 0/50Direction 0/30Stability 0/20
Against its own history: 466.4% this year vs 83.6% median over the prior 5. A gap this size is usually a one-off — acquisition, settlement, cyclical trough — not a dividend that stopped being funded. The rating reads the latest year; the table shows the trend.
Funds from operations payout, last 6 years
| Fiscal year | Payout |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 466.4% |
| 2023-12-31 | 125.3% |
| 2022-12-31 | 140.7% |
| 2021-12-31 | 80.9% |
| 2020-12-31 | 83.6% |
| 2019-12-31 | 81.7% |
Coverage worsened sharply this year, 125.3% to 466.4%, after no clear trend before it. One year is not a trend, but it is worth knowing which direction the last one moved.
0% of the 46 real estate here pay out more — at the demanding end.
The arithmetic
- GAAP earnings — dividends declared per share $1.10 ÷ diluted EPS $-0.710
- Operating cash flow — dividends paid $387m ÷ operating cash flow $457m
- Free cash flow — dividends paid $387m ÷ (operating cash flow $457m − capex $330m)
- Funds from operations — dividends declared per share $1.10 ÷ derived FFO $0.236 per share
- FFO built NAREIT-style: net income, plus real-estate depreciation, less gains on sale, over weighted-average diluted shares
- This is an approximation. Every REIT defines its own adjusted variant in the filing text, so it will not match the earnings release exactly
Where the figures came from
- 10-K filed 2026-02-13 · accession 0001360604-26-000018
All public at sec.gov — you should not have to take our word for it.
Caveats on this company
- ebitda built from net income (no operating income reported)
- FFO payout 466% covers a year in which the declared dividend fell 11% from $1.24 to $1.10. The ratio spans pre- and post-cut quarters and is not representative of the current run rate.
- FFO derived (NAREIT approximation)
Computed straight from SEC XBRL. A number that looks wrong to you is more useful to us than agreement — tell us.
What the funds from operations payout ratio measures, and where every company here sits on it.
Also on: rated not covered · when it files.
When this changes
Every figure above is recomputed whenever Healthcare Realty Trust files. The monthly letter carries what filed, what moved, and one finding computed across every company here.